{"product_id":"broken-the-failed-promise-of-muslim-inclusion-9781479823963","title":"Broken: The Failed Promise of Muslim Inclusion","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePROSE Award- Media and Cultural Studies Finalist\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHow diversity initiatives end up marginalizing Arab Americans and US Muslims  \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOne of Donald Trump's first actions as President was to sign an executive order to limit Muslim immigration to the United States, a step toward the \"complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States\" he had campaigned on. This extraordinary act of Islamophobia provoked unprecedented opposition: Hollywood movies and mainstream television shows began to feature more Muslim characters in contexts other than terrorism; universities and private businesses included Muslims in their diversity initiatives; and the criminal justice system took hate crimes against Muslims more seriously. Yet \u003ci\u003eBroken\u003c\/i\u003e argues that, even amid this challenge to institutionalized Islamophobia, diversity initiatives fail on their promise by only focusing on crisis moments. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEvelyn Alsultany argues that Muslims get included through \"crisis diversity,\" where high-profile Islamophobic incidents are urgently responded to and then ignored until the next crisis. In the popular cultural arena of television, this means interrogating even those representations of Muslims that others have celebrated as refreshingly positive. What kind of message does it send, for example, when a growing number of \"good Muslims\" on TV seem to have arrived there, ironically, only after leaving the faith? In the realm of corporations, she critically examines the firing of high-profile individuals for anti-Muslim speech--a remedy that rebrands corporations as anti-racist while institutional racism remains intact. At universities, Muslim students get included in diversity, equity, and inclusion plans but that gets disrupted if they are involved in Palestinian rights activism. Finally, she turns to hate crime laws revealing how they fail to address root causes. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn each of these arenas, Alsultany finds an institutional pattern that defangs the promise of Muslim inclusion, deferring systemic change until and through the next \"crisis.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEvelyn Alsultany\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor in the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California's Dornsife College and author of \u003ci\u003eArabs and Muslims in the Media: Race and Representation after 9\/11\u003c\/i\u003e. She is the co-editor of \u003ci\u003eArab and Arab American Feminisms: Gender, Violence, and Belonging\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e Between the Middle East and the Americas: The Cultural Politics of Diaspora\u003c\/i\u003e. As a leading expert on the history of representations of Arabs and Muslims in the US media, she co-authored \u003ci\u003ethe Obeidi-Alsultany Test\u003c\/i\u003e to help Hollywood improve representations of Muslims and serves as a consultant for Hollywood studios.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50453156856082,"sku":"9781479823963","price":52.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7816f2a3-f56b-49a2-86b6-5c4137847e8b.jpg?v=1729837581","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/broken-the-failed-promise-of-muslim-inclusion-9781479823963","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}